The Skylight Calendar is a lot greater than only a touchscreen calendar. It’s a sanity saver, group maker, and my household’s new BFF. It pulls every member of the family’s particular person calendars, together with meals, chores, each day routines, a photograph show and extra all into one spot. It comes with a stand that may be setup horizontally or vertically for a countertop show, a wall mount possibility, or seize one among these magnetic brackets [more options here!] so you’ll be able to maintain it on the fridge like I normally do!
- Synced calendars from third occasion calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- Colour coded calendars for your entire household
- Routines + chores for the youngsters [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Meal planning
- Photograph show
- Lists
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so forth into the calendar
- Accessible from calendar or cellphone app
- As new updates/options come out, they’re up to date on the calendar!
- Synced calendars from third occasion calendars [Google Cal, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc!]
- I’ve a private and work calendar. My husband has a private and a piece calendar. Then we now have two youngsters who’ve their very own issues going [sports, school, bday parties, etc]. The Skylight Calendar seamlessly imports and stays up to date when any of us make a change on any of the calendars. I can filter by particular person and think about it by day, by week, by month.
- Colour coded calendars for your entire household
- You may select a coloration per particular person, after which select which calendars are assigned to that particular person [more than one external calendar can all import into one person in the Skylight]. So I can rapidly see if it’s an merchandise for me, my husband, or the youngsters.
- Routines + chores for the youngsters [and adults!] with a built-in reward redemption system
- Chores:
- Add chores for every baby [or adult], in addition to an emoji if they will’t learn but, and a certain quantity of factors for finishing every chore! They’ll then come examine it off when it’s performed every day/week and get these factors added to their “financial institution”!
- Routines:
- Routines are nice for each day issues, resembling make the mattress, brush enamel, dress, clear up toys, fill a water bottle for the day, and so forth! Issues that aren’t essentially chores, however only a activity that we need to get in a great routine of doing!
- Rewards:
- Assign rewards at completely different values for every person who they will redeem once they have sufficient factors! Some examples that we now have are going to a film, mini golf, ice cream, Crumbl cookies, solo date with mother, solo date with dad, pick a brand new e book, $10 money, and so forth! These are all at completely different values, to allow them to select to spend it on smaller objects or put it aside for one thing larger!
- Chores:
- Meal Planning
- Rapidly put collectively a meal plan utilizing your personal recipes or meals which were included by means of Skylight! Do that all manually, or give it just a few prompts and it’ll create a household meal plan for you!
- Photograph Show
- Rapidly and simply select pictures out of your cellphone to add to the calendar. When the calendar goes into “sleep” mode it would show a rotation [shuffled or not] of those pictures! We’ve got about 100 that we now have added – I’m undecided that there’s a restrict! We love trying again by means of the recollections as they pop up!
- Lists
- Grocery lists, issues round the home, honey-do-list- no matter your listing is, you can also make an inventory for it that you would be able to entry from each your cellphone and Skylight Calendar.
- Auto-import emails, PDFs, papers and so forth into the calendar
- This one is enjoyable! Subsequent time that the college emails about an upcoming occasion or a birthday celebration invite comes within the mail, merely ahead it to a selected e-mail tackle [or take a pic and email it if it’s a physical paper] and it’ll import into your calendar!
- Accessible from calendar or cellphone app
- Make modifications on the Skylight Calendar itself, or on the app! It’s good to have the ability to make modifications when away from residence and know they’re updating at residence instantly [tasks, chores, lists, calendars, all of it!]
- As new updates/options come out, they’re up to date on the calendar!
- No extra needing a more recent or higher product — this one will replace as new options are rolled out!
- Must be plugged into an outlet
- A few of my favourite options require the Plus plan [subscription]. Now that I’m utilizing them on a regular basis I don’t thoughts, however at first I used to be a bit turned off [and held off].
- There isn’t a Alexa/Siri plug in, and no music [gosh what a dream that would be]. I nonetheless maintain a small Alexa machine for music, so as to add issues to my grocery listing whereas I’m dashing, and to set fast timers.
YUP! To me, sure, this has been a sanity saver for our entire household to rapidly see what we now have happening that week, maintain dinners on show, chores, and so forth. all in ONE place. Nobody is ever asking what we’re doing this weekend or what’s for dinner once more! Getting every little thing out of my head and into one spot has freed up a lot headspace.
The youngsters are *excited* about doing their chores and incomes rewards, which in flip earns them rewards. That in itself makes it value it, ha!
When you’re a paper and pen gal, this is probably not the calendar for you, however for me, who lives and breathes by my Google Calendar for the entire household, bringing the calendars in with the chores, meals, and so forth is an instantaneous sure!
